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Giuliani's Unwelcome Birthday Guests


Here’s an unwelcome birthday gift for Rudy Giuliani, as he travels around the city raising money: protests from fire fighters and family members of September 11th victims.


They've shown up in the past at Giuliani's presidential events. Today, they’re gathering in Bay Ridge, and they have plans to follow him nationwide starting sometime around January, according to Jim Riches, a deputy chief with the fire department whose son was killed in the World Trade Center attacks.


And Riches disputes the notion that Giuliani provided any form of leadership on September 11 or in the days following.


“If somebody can tell me what he did on 9/11 that was so good, I’d love to hear it. All he did was give information on the TV”


“He did nothing,” Riches continued. “He stood there with a TV reporter and told everyone what was going on. And he got it from everybody else down at the site.”